10th International Symposium on Scanning Probe Microscopy & Optical Tweezers in Life Sciences

Workshop: 5 Oct 2011 – 6 Oct 2011, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Microsystem Technology in Chemistry and Life Sciences Reviews

Microsystem Technology in Chemistry and Life Sciences

“WHAT DOES NOT NEED TO BE BIG, WILL BE SMALL”, a word by an engineer at a recent conference on chips technology. This sentence is particularly true for chemistry. Microfabrication technology emerged from microelectronics into areas like mechanics and now chemistry and biology. The engineering of micron and submicron sized features on the surface of silicon, glass and polymers opens a whole new world. Micromotors smaller than human hair have been fabricated and they work fine. It is declared goal of the authors to bring these different worlds together in this volume. Authors have been carefully chosen to guarantee for the quality of the contents. An engineer, a chemist or a biologist will find new impulses from the various chapters in this book.

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BIT Life Sciences’ 4th Annual Protein and Peptide Conference

Conference/exhibition: 23 Mar 2011 – 25 Mar 2011, China.
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9th International Symposium on Scanning Probe Microscopy & Optical Tweezers in Life Sciences

Conference: 6 Oct 2010 – 7 Oct 2010, Berlin, Germany. Organized by JPK Instruments AG.
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Soft Machines: Nanotechnology and Life

Soft Machines: Nanotechnology and Life

Enthusiasts look forward to a time when tiny machines reassemble matter and process information with unparalleled power and precision. But is their vision realistic? Where is the science heading? As nanotechnology (a new technology that many believe will transform society in the next on hundred years) rises higher in the news agenda and popular consciousness, there is a real need for a book which discusses clearly the science on which this technology will be based. Whilst it is most easy to simply imagine these tiny machines as scaled-down versions of the macroscopic machines we are all familiar with, the way things behave on small scales is quite different to the way they behave on large scales. Engineering on the nanoscale will use very different principles to those we are used to in our everyday lives, and the materials used in nanotehnology will be soft and mutable, rather than hard and unyielding. Soft Machines explains in a lively and very accessible manner why the nanoworld is so different to the macro-world which we are all familiar with. Why does nature engineer things in the way it does, and how can we learn to use these unfamiliar principles to create valuable new materials and artefacts which will have a profound effect on medicine, electronics, energy and the environment in the twenty-first century. With a firmer understanding of the likely relationship between nanotechnology and nature itself, we can gain a much clearer notion of what dangers this powerful technology may potentially pose, as well as come to realize that nanotechnology will have more in common with biology than with conventional engineering.

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